Medidata Solutions Honored as Gold Winner of Techie Award for Healthcare

Published on Monday, 05 December 2011 08:34 Written by TradersHuddle Staff

NEW YORK-( Business Wire )-

Medidata Solutions (NASDAQ: MDSO), a leading global provider of SaaS-based clinical development solutions, today announced that Medidata Insights™ has been named the gold winner in this year’s Techie Awards healthcare category. The Techie Awards honor companies and organizations, at all stages of development that are paving a path with an innovative technology product.

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As the industry’s first software-as-a-service business analytics solution, Medidata Insights provides R&D executives with actionable data without the implementation challenges of traditional business analytics and in a more visually compelling manner than traditional clinical reporting. Insights also delivers robust industry benchmarks developed seamlessly from operational data from more than 50 sponsors. With Insights, clinical development decision-makers get a comprehensive, contextual view of their operational data, enabling them to easily identify process improvement opportunities, optimizing resource utilization and contain budgets while reducing cycle times.

“Clinical research teams are seeking innovative solutions allowing them to make faster and better decisions to speed up development cycle times,” said Tarek Sherif, CEO, Medidata Solutions. “With Insights, Medidata has introduced sponsors to a new approach to tracking their performance, with turnkey visibility into operational metrics over time and compared to industry peers.”

About Techie Awards

Techie Awards are reserved for the companies that are led by the truly pioneering techies out there. Techie is a term, derivative of the word technology, for a person who displays a great, sometimes even obsessive, interest in technology, high-tech devices, and particularly computers.

About Medidata Solutions Worldwide

Medidata Solutions is a leading global provider of SaaS clinical development solutions that enhance the efficiency of customers’ clinical trials. Medidata’s advanced solutions lower the total cost of clinical development by optimizing clinical trials from concept to conclusion: from study and protocol design, trial planning and budgeting, site negotiation, clinical portal, trial management, randomization and trial supply management, clinical data capture and management, safety events capture, medical coding to business analytics. Our diverse life science customer base spans biopharmaceutical companies, medical device and diagnostic companies, academic and government institutions, CROs and other research organizations, and includes more than 20 of the top 25 global pharmaceutical companies as well as organizations of all sizes developing life-enhancing medical treatments and diagnostics.

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